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The Basic Law at 60 – Politics and the Federal Constitutional Court
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2019
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I don't usually open my commentary by citing great words spoken by old men. But in this case I will make an exception. Ferdinand Lassalle is not only the grandfather of German social democracy; he is also the author of these words: “Constitutional issues are power issues.”
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- German Law Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 1: Special issue - The Basic Law at 60 , 01 January 2010 , pp. 87 - 98
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1 Ferdinand Lassalle, Über Verfassungswesen: Rede am 16. April 1862 in Berlin (1993).Google Scholar
2 Heinrich Wefing, “Der Bonner Reflex”, Die Zeit, Apr. 30, 2009, at 19.Google Scholar
3 Id. Google Scholar
4 “This isn't the way we imagined it.” See Rolf Lamprecht, Zur Demontage des Bundesverfassungsgericht 126 (1996).Google Scholar
5 Id., at 128. German Law Journal Politics and the Constitutional CourtGoogle Scholar
6 Grundgesetz [GG-Constitution] art. 14.Google Scholar
7 BverfGE 65, 1.Google Scholar
8 BverfGE 120, 274.Google Scholar
9 See generally Grundgesetz [GG-Constitution] art. 16a.Google Scholar
10 See generally Grundgesetz [GG-Constitution] art. 13.Google Scholar
11 See BverfGE 1, 15 (guiding principle 3) (“The Federal Constitutional Court is called upon only to assess the lawfulness of a law, and not its appropriateness as well. The question of whether the Basic Law affords discretion to the legislature, and how far that discretion extends, is a legal issue to be evaluated by the Federal Constitutional Court.”).Google Scholar
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